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I Found Another One!

Four Walls @FourWalls (86875) • United States 14 Aug

You can find just about anything along Route 66. That includes something that’s been a passion for me lately: former POW camps from World War II. Yes, I found another one! And it was right off of Route 66 in El Reno,...

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Revisiting Daniel Mayer

Four Walls @FourWalls (86875) • United States 8 Jul

About a month ago I went to Camp Breckenridge in western Kentucky and raved about the great museum they have there, devoted to the prisoner of war camp that was established there in the 1940s for German (and later, Italian)...

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More Mind-Blowing History

Four Walls @FourWalls (86875) • United States 12 Jun 25

So, my fellow Americans, did you know that there were over 400,000 German prisoners of war in over 700 POW camps in the United States during World War II? Yeah! I think the Manhattan Project is better known that this...

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The Awful History

Four Walls @FourWalls (86875) • United States 23 Feb 24

It was almost as if General Dwight D. Eisenhower saw it coming. On April 12, 1945, the Commanding General of the European Operations toured the Ohrdruf camp, part of Buchenwald, after its liberation. He said, “I made the visit...

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How About Some World War II History?

Four Walls @FourWalls (86875) • United States 4 May 23

Tuskegee, Alabama was a beacon of hope in the Deep South for African-Americans. It’s the home of the Tuskegee University, where Booker T. Washington served as the first president of the historically black university (originally...

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The 2 AM History Detective

Four Walls @FourWalls (86875) • United States 27 Nov 20

My dear mother of blessed memory would tell me that I always had a penchant for staying up way the heck past my bedtime. She said I’d pull my hair out as a baby to keep from going to sleep. (Turns out that was just...

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